Religious and Spiritual Art in Utah

November 8 - December 27, 2006 Springville Museum of Art, Springville, UT
Stout received Curator's Award for his painting Hope for the New Millennium.

Illustration West 43

April 8 - 29, 2005 Froeden Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles juried group show included 7 works by Stout (9 accepted), 2 of which won Silver Medals in the Entertainment and Childrens categories.

Spiritual Spectrum: Paintings and Sculptures by the California Art Club

Charles R. Knight - Bringing Fossils to Life

July, 2003 - May, 2004 Page Museum of the La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles, CA
Included in this exhibition of Charles R. Knight's work is a selection of paintings from three contemporary artists influenced by Knight. Six of William Stout's paintings were selected.

California Art Club-Gold Medal Exhibition

Plein Air Tucson 2001

Imaginative Book Illustration Society

August 5 - 13, 2000 Bonhams, Knightsbridge, UK
Group show depicting 100 examples of 20th Century illustration. Three of Stout's Harry Potter illustrations were selected. Stout was the only American to be included in the show.

California Art Club-Gold Medal Exhibition

May - June, 2000 Pasadena Historical Museum
Juried Show; Stout also designed the invitation to the exhibition and its opening.

Dinosaurs, Penguins & Whales - William Stout's Antarctica

October 8 - November 28, 1999 Muckenthaler Cultural Center, Fullerton, CA
55 works; Stout's largest one man show of his Antarctica oil paintings.

California Art Club-Gold Medal Exhibition

May - June, 1999 Pasadena Historical Museum
Juried Show

Society of Animal Artists - Special Exhibition

March 27 to June 6, 1999 Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI
July 15 to October 12, 1999 John L. Wehle Gallery of Sporting Art, Genesee Country Village & Museum, Mumford, NY

Impressions of Pasadena

Artists For Architecture

May 3-17, 1997 Galerie Gabrie, Pasadena, CA
CAC group show aimed at saving the architecture targeted for demolition by the 710 Freeway project.

California Art Club - Gold Medal Exhibition

June, 1997 Los Angeles Arboretum
Juried
Group show

East Coast Ideals - West Coast Concepts

August 1-September 28, 1997
Springville Museum of Art, Springville, UT
June 2-June29, 1997 Academy of Art College, San Francisco, CA
March 8-May 18, 1997 Carnegie Museum, Oxnard, CA
Group show honoring the living legacy of the Boston School and the California impressionists.

California Art Club - Gold Medal Exhibition

California Wetlands

April 13-September 1, 1996 - Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
November-December, 1996 Museum Room-Mission San Juan Capistrano
Invitational group show of California Art Club members.

William Stout's Visions of Gondwana-Past and Present Life in Antarctica

September 2-November 26, 1995 Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Stout's second one man show for this museum consists of 50 works, primarily his Antarctic field studies, the oil paintings that resulted from them and new visions of prehistoric Antarctica.

One Man and Twenty Women

Animals In Art

February 11-April 3, 1995 Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Important group show; 130 works of art showcase the history of artists' depictions of animals. Included artists: Bateman, Coheleach, Shepherd, Remington, Russell, Rungius, Barye. 18 new works by Stout were shown.

Prehistoric Wildlife

January 27-February 4, 1995 Saguaro Gallery, Park City, Utah
Group show that included 6 of Stout's prehistoric reconstructions.

Jurassic Art

Studies From Gondwana - Landscapes and Wildlife of Antarctica

May 21-June 11, 1993 Garland Center for the Arts, Pasadena, California
One man show-47 works culled from Stout's recent Antarctic field studies.

Dinosaurs, Penguins and Whales - The Wildlife of Antarctica

January-December, 1991 Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
February-December, 1992 New Mexico Museum of Natural History, Albuquerque
February-December, 1994 Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
June-August, 1995 Royal Tyrrell Museum (Drumheller, Canada)
Important one man show of 45 new oil paintings that depict life in Antarctia from prehistoric times to the present day.

Lost Worlds: A Selection of Works by William Stout

December 8, 1989 to February 1, 1990-The Art Store Gallery in Pasadena
July 6-September 4, 1990-Art Store Gallery in the Orange County city of Fullerton
These community galleries were host to this 40 piece retrospective of Stout's career.

Special Effects

1987 California Museum of Science and Industry, Los Angeles, CA
This group show on special effects in the movies included some of Stout's production design work for "Masters of the Universe."

This important group show depicted the history of paleontological reconstruction. Included were 11 paintings from Stout’s book THE DINOSAURS-A Fantastic New View Of A Lost Era. One of these paintings was chosen as the show catalogue's cover (The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County has offered to purchase this painting for their collection). This exhibition has broken all attendance records at each of its host museums. At the Smithsonian alone, over two million visitors saw this exhibition. In addition to this show, Stout has loaned his paleontological reconstruction work to several natural history museums (including the Boston Museum of Science) for exhibitions on dinosaurs.

Discovering Dinosaurs

1986-The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Group show

Horror World

From 1985 to 1989, 32 of William Stout’s motion picture production designs toured Japan, Taiwan and Hong Kong in this exhibition of science fiction and horror film effects design.

The Dinosaur Show

1985 - Museum of Science, Boston MA Group show.

Science Fiction

June 13-July 3, 1984-Society of Illustrators, New York, NY
Group show

Death Of The Dinosaurs

The Prehistoric World of William Stout

The Houston Museum of Natural Science (Houston, Texas) and the Words & Pictures Museum (Northampton, Massachusetts) both have permanent displays of William Stout's work. The Hollywood gallery “Every Picture Tells A Story” currently shows Stout’s art, and will host a one man show of his Antarctic work upon publication of his book in conjunction with Stout's eastern representative, Scheele Fine Arts in Cleveland, Ohio. Alexander Gallery in New York City also sells and displays Stout's major works.